PTI | |Commonwealth Games medal winning duo of Manoj Kumar and L Devendro Singh put up contrasting performances in their new weight categories but progressed on a busy second day of the National Boxing Championships.

PTI | |MC Mary Kom has decided to go back to the light flyweight 48kg division amid speculation that it is among the two categories that the International Boxing Association (AIBA) is pushing for inclusion in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

AFP | |Fiery heavyweight Dereck Chisora has been fined £25,000 ($31,000, 29,600 euros) and received a suspended two-year ban for hurling a table at a press conference to promote Saturday's bitter bout with British champion Dillian Whyte.

AFP | |Russian boxer Misha Aloian and Romanian weightlifter Gabriel Sincraian were stripped of their Rio Olympic medals on Thursday after being found guilty of doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced.

Abdul Gani | |Olympian Shiva Thapa, the local boy, started his campaign in the first Elite (Senior) Men's National Boxing Championship in Guwahati on Thursday by thrashing Gumin Gara of Arunachal Pradesh 5-0 on Thursday.

AFP | |Manchester, United Kingdom, Dec 9, 2016 (AFP) -World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua fights Eric Molina on Saturday, but all the talk this week has been about who the Briton could fight next.

AFP | |Los Angeles, Dec 8, 2016 (AFP) -Terence Crawford puts his World Boxing Organization and World Boxing Association super lightweight titles on the line in Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday against big-punching John Molina, who showed his mettle in June in an upset win over Ruslan Provodnikov.

IANS | |Shiva Thapa's thumping 5-0 win over Arunachal Pradesh's Gumin Gara in the opening bout of the senior men's National Championship was the lone highlight on Thursday, which was marred by several incidents of mismanagement by the organisers.